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Ask HN: Why does Hacker News block me when I visit with a VPN?
Is this new behavior, and if so, why? I'm surprised that at site with the content of HN would not be sympathetic to VPN connections. I now get this error [0] when I try to visit with my VPN.
The VPN is PIA, same as I've used for years, never an issue on HN before. I have to turn it off to view the site now.
[0] https://imgur.com/a/Ez2MR
- ColinWright 9y agoFrom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post on HN to ask ... us > something. Instead, please send it to > hn@ycombinator.com.
- mkempe 9y agoYou're not alone in experiencing a similar issue on HN while using a VPN.
- staunch 9y agoMy guess is that HN banned PIA's shared VPN gateway IP address(es) by mistake. A large number of users making requests from the same IP(s) can look like abuse. There's an unban feature, visit: https://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=<your public IP> You can search "ip" to see what your current public IP is.
- useranme 9y agoHN seems to also treat connections from Tor differently. If I visit HN from Tor and click on "login" HN pretends it takes forever to establish a connection. But if I first click on an existing HN link and then login, then pages load ok. HN could do better to protect the privacy of its users.
- lovelearning 9y agoIf voting abuse is the problem, HN should allow access to content and discussions, and disable only actions like voting and flagging.
- j_s 9y agoThis may be a CloudFlare feature, which you can bypass. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719366